Winner

Hoboken International Film Festival

Best Original Screenplay Unproduced

"Rose's House"

Written by John Bernieri and Keith Parfitt

A handsome young Wall Street rogue, doing time at Rikers for stock fraud, gets paroled on the condition that he maintain and manage his dear departed Aunt Rose's eight family apartment house. Little does he realize that the "residents" are very "special" and a Russian mogul wants the place leveled.

Think, Ray Donovan meets Cuckoo's Nest with a twist of Homeland....

"The Appraiser"
An Original Suspense/Thriller Feature Film Screenplay Located in Orange County, NY
A retired FBI photographer, who's wife was killed during the World Trade Center attack on 9-11, falls for a Muslim Beauty only to realize she is using him and his airplane pilot skills to aid a severe terrorist plot on NYC. When an old FBI friend convinces him to remain embedded, the plot crescendos to full throttle with a nail biting twist at the finale!
(Neil Cuthbert, screenwriter of "Hocus Pocus" and many others, said, "Wow! You have GOT to get this out there!")

"Angels Among Us"

An Original Horror/Thriller Feature Film Screenplay Located in NYC

A strung out loser, with the help of some heavenly sent warriors, finds himself aiding the rescue of three young kidnapped children being held for nefarious harvesting. The demonic antagonist has his lair on a yacht and our hero realizes his destiny as he and his "crew" converge in battle during the "pay-off" finale.

(HBO reviewed the script and opted to produce with outside funding. )

"Eating Life"

An Original Docu-Drama Series in Six Parts

One of the most famously "Unknown" personalities in this lifetime, John, "Johnny Ciao" Persico lived a renaissance life few of us could imagine. Until now. Taken from the authorized autobiography of Johnny Ciao, this wild and exhilarating swashbuckling tale of sex, drugs and rock n' roll races through Atlanta, Hollywood and NYC in the 70's, 80's and 90's partying with hundreds of celebs including the likes of Carlos Santana, Willie Nelson, Marlon Brando, Hall and Oats, Hank Aaron, Michael Jackson and dozens more!